Colbert and other GOP loyalists are taking offense to the former governor’s comments that immigrants who move to the United States in search of opportunity are not felons, they are uprooting their lives as “an act of love” for their families.

“Republican primary voters know that illegal immigration is not an act of love, sir, it is an illicit, filthy act of border penetration,” Colbert said. “No love involved. It is sweaty and it is frantic and odds are it’s happening in the back of a truck.”